Washing-machine



J. E. STAIR.

WASHING MACHINE'.

(No Model.)

Witwe/Joey UNI-TED STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

.TOHN E. S'IAIR, OF EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,241I dated' October25, 1887.

Application filed June 25, 1887.

`senin No. 242,464. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, JOHN E. STAIR, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Easton, in the county of Northampton and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inWashing- Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains. to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part ofthis speciiication, and in which- Figure 1 is a vertical sectional viewof a wash-tub, showing the Washing-machine provided with my improvementin side View. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical sectional view of themachine, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the guard. i

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

My invention has relation to that class of washingmaehines in which aliuted roller is brought into engagement with one or morepressure-rollers, and in which the tinted roller is provided with anumber'of peripheral grooves, in which guards fit, which prevent theclothes from being carried around with the roller; and it contemplates,principally, certain improvements upon the washing-machine for whichLetters Patent No. 321,782 were granted to John S. Beazell on the 7thday of July, 1885; and it consists in the improved construction andcombination of parts of a guard, as hereinafter more fully described andclaimed. 4

In the accompanying drawings, the numeral 1 indicates the tub, havingthe supporting` posts 4, upon which the strips 8 are supported, the saidstrips forming the bottom of the washing mechanism, similar to thestrips similar] y numbered in the patent above referred to.

The iiuted roller 12 is formed with the circumferential grooves 27,similar to the roller in the above patent, and the upper rollers, 20,are of the same construction and arranged in the same manner as therollers in the patent, being numbered similar in the drawings.

In the place of the guards or strips employed in the machine referredto, which strips are secured to the bottom strips and carried over thefluted roller in the circumferential grooves, I employ guardplates 28,having a straight iianged lower edge, 29, with which they may rest uponthe bottom strips, and having downwardly-projecting lugs 30, which bearagainst the inner faces of the bottom strips. j

The upper edge of the guard-plate is cut out segmentally, as shown at31, fitting into the circumferential groove in the roller with which itis brought to register, the entire curved edge projecting into the lowerportion of the groove, so that the curved edges 32 of theupwardly-projecting horns 33 of the plate will extend from within thegroove and may guide the clothes off from the roller after having passedbetween it and the upper rollers.

By having the guards projecting from below into the grooves ot' theroller all possibility of any strings, fringes, or other loose portionsof the clothes being caught by the guards will be obviated, as theclothes will strike the curved edges of the horns of the guards and beslid oft' from the roller, the said horns projecting sufficiently farinto the grooves to'prevent any portions of the clothes from beingcaught by the horns and forced between them and the grooves in theroller.

The guard-plates are placed loosely upon the bottom strips, and maytherefore play in the grooves of the roller, so that there will be nopossibility for the guards binding against the grooves, and they will atall times be held perfectly in place by the downwardly-projecting lugsbearing with their straight edges against the inner edges of the bottomstrips 'and by theupper concavely-curved edges projecting into thegrooves.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States- In awashing-machine having aliutedlower roller and smaller upper rollers, the combina.-

tion of the said iuted lower roller having av number of circumferentialgrooves, parallel bottom strips below the roller, and guardplates havingflanged and straight lower edges provided with downwardly-projectinglugs In testimony that I claim the foregoing as bearing with theirstraight outer edges against Iny own I have hereunto afxed my signature1o the inner sides of the strips, and having conin presence of twowitnesses.

cavely eut-out segmental upper edges fitting 5 into the grooves of theroller and forming horns JOHN E S PAIR' projecting at both sides of theroller in the W'itnesses: grooves and formed with curved outer edges, A.EUGENE SMITH, its and for the purpose shown and set forth. l JOHN S.NOBLE.

